Israel - Our friend's dirty Linen ....

[Ant111]

Israel - Our Friend’s dirty Linen:

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Israel’s Former president Katsav to face rape indictment.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1069709.html


xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Former PM Olmert indicted.

Olmert to face fraud, breach of trust, falsifying corporate records, receiving illicit benefits and tax evasion charges.

Olmert will face charges of fraud, breach of trust, falsifying corporate records and tax evasion, as well as a charge of fraudulently obtaining benefits to which the State attributes aggravated circumstances. ...

The indictment does not include bribery charges, despite the police's recommendations to include them in the indictment. ...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340 ... 30,00.html


xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Former ministers Hirchson, Benizri begin prison terms.

Ex-finance minister to serve five-year sentence, former Shas minister facing four-year jail term, as both were convicted of multiple counts of fraud. ....

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340 ... 64,00.html


xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


PM slams Breaking the Silence.

LONDON - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday lashed out against Breaking-the-Silence, an Israeli organization that collects testimonies from Israel Defense Forces soldiers about alleged abuse of Palestinians in the territories ....

Netanyahu also addressed the lawsuits filed in Britain against Israeli officers and senior officials for alleged war crimes, over their actions in the territories. ....

When Netanyahu asked Brown to promote legislation to prevent such suits, Brown said he would see what could be done. Netanyahu also asked Brown to have his cabinet publicly denounce attempts to impose an academic and economic boycott on Israel. ....

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1110129.html


xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


‘Breaking-the-Silence’ Booklet.

Israeli Soldiers’ Testimonies from Operation Cast Lead, Gaza 2009.

AROUND 30 ISRAELI SOLDIERS TESTIFY ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCES IN OPERATION CAST LEAD – A NEW BOOKLET BY "BREAKING THE SILENCE":

http://www.shovrimshtika.org/oferet/booklet_e.asp


xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Don't smear the messenger .....

.... A series of detailed human rights reports about serious Israeli abuses during the recent Gaza conflict has given rise to an intense campaign by the Israeli government and some of its uncritical supporters to smear the messengers and change the subject.

Irwin Cotler's attack in these pages on Judge Richard Goldstone's UN-mandated investigation of the conflict is of a piece with these efforts ("The Goldstone Mission - Tainted to the core," August 17 and 19). Rather than addressing the sad reality in Gaza, he effectively offers an apology for Israeli abuse.

... Cotler tries to shift the conversation from the question of how the war was conducted to the separate issue of who started the war. Even if one accepts Cotler's assertion that Hamas's indiscriminate rocket attacks were "the root cause of the Gaza conflict", [] that is irrelevant to the question of how Israel chose to fight the war. ...

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite? ... 1145115894

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynWjYHP91gA


xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


White Flag Deaths: Human-Rights-Watch Report.

Killings of Palestinian Civilians during Operation Cast Lead.

http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/ ... 9web_1.pdf

http://www.hrw.org/en/middle-eastn-afri ... erritories


xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Outcry over violence in Israel ignoring occupation.

.... there is no letup in the everyday bullying by the occupation regime. Many Israelis are complicit in every travel restriction and expropriation order, from the cabinet ministers responsible, to the jurists who legitimize and codify, to the officers who implement and the typists and translators. Every soldier who guards a Jewish settlement, every rabbi who serves it and every kindergarten teacher there is partner to the primal act of the established violence that built it on Palestinian land (public or private, that makes no difference). This is violence that replicates and reproduces at every moment, because the initial theft is still doing damage. The military judiciary system, which tries only Palestinian inhabitants of the West Bank, has an important role in the reproduction of violence. ...

The occupier produces laws whose entire aim is to punish and deter the occupied who dares to resist. ....

In a normal society, violence toward children is considered particularly appalling. Yet here, for decades now, Israeli soldiers (who will count how many?) have arrested and are arresting Palestinian children, often in the middle of the night, on the basis of confessions from other children who were given months and years after committing a felony against the occupation. ...

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1111832.html


xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[Ant111]

"We are a light unto the nations." (Isaiah 42:6)

[Ry]

I reported that a long time ago.

[Ant111]

Hidden in Olmert Indictment Are Charges That He Swindled U.S. Jews.

.... The Israeli leader, prosecutors charge, bilked 17 prominent North American Jewish charities and pro-Israel advocacy groups for his own benefit. ...

Olmert allegedly swindled American Jewish groups out of some $50,000 ....

The list of organizations hit by Olmert’s alleged double-billing operation includes some of the biggest and most prominent organizations in American Jewish life. Among them are Israel Bonds ($14,000), the Simon Wiesenthal Center ($5,000), and the Canadian Society for Yad Vashem ($2,000). ...

http://www.forward.com/articles/113275/

[exquisite]

News Reporter Under Attack in Israel

watch the clip.

http://politicaltheatrics.org/2009/09/0 ... in-israel/

[Ant111]

(Israeli) Hospitals deny birth certificates to non-citizens who can't pay fee (~ $2,500).

Without an official birth certificate, they are, for all intents and purposes, children with no status or recognition from authorities. ...

"When a mother is set to be discharged from the hospital after giving birth, they tell her that until she pays the fee - NIS 10,000 (~ $2,500). - she will not get a birth certificate for her baby," Perkovich said. "This is a sum that most of these people cannot pay and the result is that many of these women give birth under very difficult conditions."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1118612.html

[Ant111]

Jewish Terrorism -

1945, October 31: Jewish terrorist offensive against British rule in Palestine begins, with a wave of bomb attacks on police vehicles, railway sites and Haifa oil refinery. One policeman, one soldier and two railway workers killed. ...

1946, July 22: Ninety people killed and forty five wounded after Jewish terrorists blow up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, Palestine, which was home to British government and military offices. The terrorists held workers at pistol point while they planted the explosives in the basement of the hotel. ...


1947, July 12: Jewish Irgun terrorists kidnap and then hang two British Army sergeants. The terrorists were trying to secure the release of three Irgun members who had been sentenced to death by the British authorities in Palestine. ....


1947, September 29: Jewish Irgun terrorists bomb police station in Haifa, Palestine, killing four British and four Arab policemen, as well as two Arab civilians. Forty six people injured. ....


1947, December 12: Twenty Arabs, five Jews and two British soldiers killed and thirty wounded in Jewish terrorist bomb attacks on buses in Haifa and Ramleh, Palestine. British mandate to rule Palestine ends on 15 May 1948; state of Israel established.


1947, December 29: Jewish Irgun terrorists throw grenades from passing taxi into café near the Damascus gate, Jerusalem, Palestine, killing eleven Arabs and two British policemen.


1948, April 9: Jewish Irgun terrorist group attacks Deir Yassim, Palestine, murdering two hundred and fifty four Arab women and children captured in the remains of the village.

.......................................

http://www.timripley.co.uk/terrorism/terrorism1.htm

[Ant111]

Ethnic Purity. ---- Ja, mein Fuehrer ... !

Deporting foreign children preserves Israel's Jewish identity.

(Snip) ... Allowing these children to stay in Israel "is liable to damage the state's Jewish identity, constitute a demographic threat and increase the danger of assimilation," ....

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1120966.html

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite? ... 2FShowFull

[Ant111]

Israel’s growing isolation.

Our global status is gradually being eroded as international pressure grows.

.... We are seeing an anti-Israeli tide in Europe and in South America as well that at times gives rise to latent anti-Semitism. The list is long: Ranging from the media-covered conflict with Sweden over the “harvesting of body parts” affair (which was needlessly inflated by us) to the Norwegian decision to boycott the stocks of Elbit. It continued with the embargo imposed by Britain on the importation of spare parts to the Israeli Navy and the boycott on goods produced in the territories; finally, Honduras’ ousted president charged Israelis with using poisonous gases against him. ....

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340 ... 72,00.html


xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Israel needs legitimacy to wage war and peace.

With the occupation, the settlements and brutality, religious nationalism has fed the destructive forces that seek to trample the natural rights of Jews and Israelis. But the left has also contributed its part to the legitimacy crisis. ...

The right sinned by contaminating Zionism with the occupation, and the left sinned by abandoning the campaign over Zionism's justice. As a result, Israel lost not only its way, but its voice. The fundamental truths that brought us here, and which justify our existence here, have been lost and forgotten.

The campaign to renew Israel's legitimacy is a vital one. Without legitimacy, Israel will be unable to contend with Iran in any way, shape or form. Without legitimacy, Israel will not achieve peace, nor will it be able to wage war. Nonetheless, to give Israel back what it has lost, the prime and defense ministers need to do more than deliver speeches. They need to act.

On one hand, there is an urgent need for a creative, daring diplomatic initiative that would prove that Israel is truly and genuinely striving to end the occupation. Without such an initiative, the world will not listen to Israeli justice, which today remains a concept largely invisible to the world. On the other hand, there is a need to enlist Israeli and Jewish elites in the struggle to once again strengthen the foundations of Israel's legitimacy.

This diplomatic and moral effort is no less important than the struggles that produced the Balfour Declaration and the UN partition resolution. If such an effort is not launched immediately, and does not soon succeed, Israel will become an international pariah.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121263.html


xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Suit: Jerusalem hospital's refusal to admit Palestinian may have caused death.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121242.html


xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Israel sees court rulings on Palestinian land as mere 'recommendations'

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1120661.html


xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Israel's nukes, US's double standards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyySy29M ... r_embedded


xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


War Criminals Are Becoming Arbiters of the Law.

The double standard under which the Israeli government operates is too much for everyone except the brainwashed Americans. ....

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts10142009.html


Israeli Government Contradicts its Own Self-Defense Argument.

http://mwcnews.net/content/view/33738/26/


xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Addicted to victimization.

Zionists have obsessive need to play victim’s role on international stage ....

[Ant111]

Labeled as ‘Self hating Jews’. (Video)

Norman Finkelstein

http://vimeo.com/6031502


Ilian Pappe

http://vimeo.com/5975423

http://vimeo.com/user2115242/videos/sort:newest


xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Snipped and Ethnically Pure!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFxt7S7s ... r_embedded#